Late last year, Guided by Voicesdenied rumors of re-breaking up (they reunited in 2010) and quickly followed that with a new album, Let's Go Eat the Factory, which came out this past January. But it wouldn't be GBV's style to do a reunion album without one or two more the same year, right? They [released] another 21-song full length, Class Clown Spots a UFO, on June 12 and a third new LP, Bears for Lunch, should see a release this November. Rolling Stone recently premiered the title track from Class Clown Spots a UFO, a track that's actually been floating around in the band's repertoire for years and has been finished and re-recorded for the new album. Download that above, or stream it below, along with the album art and tracklist.

Guided by Voices will be playing the CBGB Festival in NYC this summer, and in September they'll kick off a tour with Detective which comes to TX for shows in Houston at Warehouse Live on 9/24 and Austin at Emo's East on 9/25. Tickets for the Austin show are on sale now.

That CBGB Festival show is the big free show in Central Park with The War on Drugs, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Cloud Nothings, and it goes from 3-7pm on Saturday (7/7). Get there early because not only is it a killer lineup from start to finish, you want to make sure you get in before it reaches capacity. If you do get shut out, you can always head to Times Square for CYHSY & the Hold Steady (and Superchunk, though Superchunk play before the Central Park show starts and the other two-mentioned bands play during it).

Meanwhile GBV play the Troc in Philly tonight (7.6). Their September tour is with Detective, which is Jim Greer from Guided By Voices' other band. Check out a Detective video with all tour dates and the new GbV album info, below...

one guy has nothing better to do that write multiple posts calling GBV hippies.. I've been following this band for close to 20 years and this is THE only place anyone has ever called GBV a hippie band...anything said after this (or before even) is just one guy's "GBV are a hippie band" meme.. end of story..

Might still be able to catch GBV if you are at The Hold Steady in Times Square. War on Drugs had some equipment problems do it's running late. No way GBV goes on right at 6. Superchunk played 40 minutes and was great despite Mac's equipment issues on a couple of songs. Duff McKagan's Loaded mangling of those Damned and Stooges covers? Not so much. Poor Glen Matlock